His forthcoming books, How to Beat Trump (Fall/Winter 2018) and Blue: China’s Other Color (Summer 2019), continue to draw the maps we need to navigate the new world we’re already in. The New World (Fall/Winter 2019) will be an atlas to the future.

Chris’ mental map-making skills and clarifying speech are frequently sought-after by TV, radio, print and social media on four continents. His essays appear everywhere from The Guardian to TIME Magazine to Vogue. His weekly letters, addressed to the chief cartographers of the 21st century, are deemed required Sunday reading by some of the world’s smartest people and boldest explorers.

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Chris has helped crowds of 50 to 5,000 to make sense of, and thrive through, rapid political, social and economic change. In 2018 he was rated one of the Global Top 10 Thinkers on the Future of Work by London Speaker Bureau.

Chris has been a two-time Governor General’s Medallist, a Sauvé Fellow and Commonwealth Scholar, a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology (Sydney) Business School. He holds a doctorate in politics from Oxford University, where he mapped the political change of China’s emerging middle class. Chris was also once a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Beijing, where he learned to speak Chinese—and tailor suits (long story).

“Chris dares to ask—and answer—the big, essential questions: where do we come from, what are we doing wrong—and right!—and where are we trying to go?”

Christine LagardeInternational Monetary Fund

Born far from any water—on the Canadian Prairies—Chris nonetheless loves to row. He divides his time between London, Beijing and Regina, Saskatchewan.